Excerpt from A Digest of the Revised Code and Acts Passed by the Legislature Between the 7th Day of April 1830, and the 16th Day of June 1836, Forming With Purdon's Digest of 1830, a Complete Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania to the Present Time: Together With 1. Explanatory Notes; 2. Numerous References to the Latest Judicial Decisions of the Courts; 3. The Explanatory Remarks of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise the Civil Code of Pennsylvania (Under the Resolution of 23d March 1830) The act entitled An act relating to the Organization of the Courts of Justice, the Act entitled An act relating to Inns, Taverns and Retailers of Vinous and Spirituous Liquors, the Act relating to County Rates and Levies and Township Rates and Levies, the Act relating to Counties and Townships and County and Township Ofiicers, the Act to fix the Stan dard and Denominations of Measures and feights in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Act relating to Inspections, have all been adopted; and being framed on a comprehensive and compendious scale, the several provisions of each respective act, except such as are new, being extracted from numerous acts of assembly; scattered over the different volumes of our code, they constitute as a whole, a vast reduction of the bulk and improvement of the disposition of every branch of the statute laws, to which they relate. Besides the acts already enumerated, many others have been passed, upon a variety of different subjects, which, to gether with those just referred to, either repeal, supersede or re-enact un der an improved arrangement, and in a more concise form, alarge portion of the acts contained in Purdon's valuable Digest, and thus render the legislation of the last five years peculiarly interesting and important. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.